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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Röhrigshöfe (Municipality of Röhrigshöfe) |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | Black and green letterpress vignette occupying the full note face within a double-rule border, depicting a sweeping landscape view of the entrance to the Ochsengraben ravine near Röhrigshöfe, with tall conifers framing a dry valley floor where a figure and horses are visible at a wooden fence. The legend 'Das Wiesental ist halb verdorrt' is inscribed in an upper panel in period Gothic script, and the caption 'Eingang zum Ochsengraben.' appears in green letterpress in a lower panel. The artist's signature 'G. Hoffmann' is visible at lower right of the vignette. |
| Reverse lettering | Das Wiesental ist halb verdorrt Eingang zum Ochsengraben. Hoffmann |
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Röhrigshöfe is a small village in Thuringia, and its 50 Pfennig notgeld belongs to the vast wave of municipal emergency money issued across Germany between roughly 1916 and 1922, when coin shortages drove even the most obscure parishes to commission their own scrip. The Werbeverlag A.G. in Bremen was a commercial advertising and printing house that took on notgeld contracts during this period — not a specialist security printer — which is characteristic of the smaller-denomination issues where fraud risk was considered negligible.
G. Hoffmann as designer credit appears on several Werbeverlag-produced notgeld pieces from this run.